Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
ALICE ADAMS
Barcelona
JULIA ALVAREZ
The Rudy Elmenhurst Story
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Man from Mars
DONALD BARTHELEME
The Indian Uprising
CHARLES BAXTER
Snow
ANN BEATTIE
The Cinderella Waltz
T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE
Descent of Man
RON CARLSON
Blazo
RAYMOND CARVER
Cathedral
SANDRA CISNEROS
One Holy Night
ROBERT COOVER
The Babysitter
MARK COSTELLO
Murphy's Xmas
ANDRE DUBUS
A Father's Story
STUART DYBEK
Pet Milk
LOUISE ERDRICH
Saint Marie
RICHARD FORD
Rock Springs
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
GEORGE GARRETT
An Evening Performance
WILLIAM H. GASS
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
C. S. GODSHALK
The Wizard
TOM HAWKINS
Putting a Child to Bed
AMY HEMPEL
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
PAM HOUSTON
Cowboys Are My Weakness
CHARLES JOHNSON
Kwoon
THOM JONES
The Black Lights
JAMAICA KINCAID
Girl
WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE
Follow the Eagle
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The New Atlantis
DAVID MADDEN
No Trace
BOBBIE ANN MASON
Love Life
SUSAN MINOT
Lust
BHARATI MUKHERJEE
The Tenant
ALICE MUNRO
Wild Swans
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Bad Girls
TIM O'BRIEN
The Things They Carried
JONATHAN PENNER
Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
Souvenir
MARY ROBISON
Coach
AMY TAN
Rules of the Game
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A Death in the Family
JOHN UPDIKE
The Other
GUY VANDERHAEGHE
Going to Russia
ALICE WALKER
Everyday Use
JOY WILLIAMS
Taking Care
TOBIAS WOLFF
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Biographical Sketches
Permissions Acknowledgments
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Master teachers and writers R. V. Cassill and Joyce Carol Oates offer here a refreshed and updated edition of The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, celebrating not only an enduring literary genre but also that genre's energy and diversity.
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